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title: Here there was bitter cold and snow-storms, while in Spain there was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here there was bitter cold and snow-storms, while in Spain there was burning sunshine and oppressive heat. Who acts: bitter cold snow storms. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 34

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Here there was bitter cold and snow-storms, while in Spain there was burning sunshine and oppressive heat.

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**Who acts:** bitter cold snow storms · **What happens:** be, burn · **To what, where:** sunshine, Spain

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bitter cold snow storms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:160:34
# text = Here there was bitter cold and snow-storms, while in Spain there was burning sunshine and oppressive heat.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	oppressive	oppressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | bitter cold snow storms |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** | past · progressive | bitter cold snow storms *not said here* | sunshine and oppressive heat |  | Spain |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sunshine=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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